Receipt book



Mair. 20, 1923.

S. F. CLARKSON RECEIPT BOOK Filed Apr. 26, 1920 STENAET CLARKSON, GF

RECEET EOGFL.

Application filed April 28,

To all whom t may concern:

Be it knoyvn that l, STEWART CLARK- son,v a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of St. Charles, l/llinona County, Minnesota, haveinvented certain new and useful lmprovements in Receipt Books, of whichthe following is a specification.

rllhe object of my invention is to provide a book adapted particularlyfor use in creameries Where a machine is used for entering data on aticket indicating the amount of sweet or sour cream delivered and acorresponding entry is also made on the leaf of a book wherein theaccount of the person selling the cream to the Creamery is kept, theticket being removed and delivered to the seller as receipt for thecream delivered.

The machine used for this purpose is the type known as the railroadmachine Wherein provision is made for duplicating or reproducing theprinting of an item or data and the use of the machine of courserendering it impossible for any mistakes to occur through transpositionof the ligures or an error in reproducing the iigures on the ticket orleaf.

T he invention consists generally in various constructions andcombinations, all as hereinafter described and particularly pointed outin the claims.

ln the accompanying dra-Wings forming part of this specification,

Figure l is a perspective view of a book embodying my invention,

Figure 2 is an edge view of the same,

Figure 3 is a similar View, showing a modified means for securing theleaves of the book together.

ln the drawing, 2 represents a leaf of the book, having at one end aticket. 3 formed preferably by slittinfY the book transversely at et andthen extending a line of perforations 5 from the end of the slit to theend of the book opposite its bound portion. This ticket, which is foldedover and torn out when the proper entry has been made thereon,constitutes a receipt to the farmer or other person delivering creamand, as indicated in Figure l, the inner face of the ticket has theWording Sweet cream and Sour cream thereon with blank spaces ivhereonthe date and the number of pounds of crean-i may be entered. The ticketis preferably about half the Width of the leaf of the book so that spaceis provided on the leaf for a reproduction of the printing on 1920.Serial No. 376,603.

the ticket and this is done by means of the Well-known machine that isadapted for printing a date and ligures representing pounds and then bya simple manipulation Will repeat this printing on another part of thesame leaf or sheet. rl`his arrangement is shown plainly in Figure l,Where the Words Sweet cream are printed at the end of the leaf With ablank space beneath for the number of pounds of cream delivered on the8th of April. Under the heading cSour cream provision is made forprinting similar figures representing the date and the Weight of thecream. l/Vhen this printing is completed, the ticket is folded on theline of perforations and torn out and given to the farmer or seller ofthe cream, While the Creamery retains the book and uses the memorandumthereon as an open account With the seller of the cream, and a clerkcan, at any time by the use of an ordinary adding machine, easily andquickly ascertain the number of' pounds delivered in a certain time.

For convenience of inserting the leaves in the machine, the printing isdone on the inner face and to alloiv for convenient movement of the leaes the book is preferably bound by means of the loops or links 6.rllhese, as shown in Figure 2, are preferably oval in form and made ofWire, suitable holes being provided in the leaves through which theloops are inserted.

ln Figure 3 a cord 7 the Wire loops. ln other is the same as describedthe other figures.

l claim as my invention: Y

l. A receipt book comprising leaves held together at one end, saidleaves having slits therein extending transversely from one edge to apoint near the center and also having a line of perforations extendingfrom the inner end of the slit to the unbound end of the leaf, said'ticket and the adjacent face of the leaf having appropriatelydesignated blanks for the day of tie month and the number of pounds ofthe article delivered. duplicate entries being made on the face of theticket and on theleaf, the tickets when removed and delivered to theseller becoming a receipt when the transaction is completed, the leafbeing retained by the purchaser and forming a permanent record of thesale.

2. A receipt book comprising leaves and loops for loosely binding theleaves together is substituted for respects the book with reference toat one enel, the opposite end of the leaf haw the 'transaction and theaccount with Ithe 10 ing separating lines extending' longitudinallyseller. f and transversely therein and intersecting to ln witnesswhereof, l have hereunto set iorn a detachable ticket at onle 1eclgedofthe my hand this 21st clay of April7 1920.

lea one face of seid ticket zinc tie e jacent corresjlooncling` fece ofthe leef having clupli- STEWART F' CLARKSON cate entries made thereonits u recorcl of the Witnesses:

sale, the ticket being delivered to the seller f WQEfSPENCER,

and the leaf forming zi permanent record of GEO, ECKLES.

